Extraordinary popular delusions [microform] /
Mackay, Charles,1814-1889.
Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston,
1850.
Vol. 2 has title page: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes index.
v. 1. The Mississippi scheme -- The South-Sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- Relics -- Modern prophecies -- Popular admiration for great thieves -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beards -- Duels and ordeals -- Popular follies in great cities -- The O.P. Mania -- The thugs and phansigars -- Witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- v. 2. The Crusades -- Haunted houses -- Philosophical delusions-Introductory remarks -- The alchemists, or Searchers for the philosopher's stone and the water of life -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers.
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Microfiche.
Impostors and imposture.
Swindlers and swindling.
Occultism
Delusions.
Social psychology.